Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

[Andrea]

Hi,

recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without plugins.
It's the big HTML5 + <video> saga.

I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this things works a bit
but not very well.

Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/

It's a good example of what does not work.

If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.

And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.

Has anybody tried http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as it does not work
even without
pressing pause.

[Andrea]

On 27/11/09 13:41, Ian Malone wrote:
>  
>  Having now tried this on two up to date F11 x86_64 systems I've found
>  that the same pause problem happens there (after cleaning my
>  ~/.mozilla directory and disabling any system-wide plugins that
>  remained).  This leaves me wondering whether Andrea is using 64bit or
>  32bit Firefox. 
32 bit for me.

>  
>  Versions:
>  firefox-3.5.5-1.fc11.x86_64
>  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
>  Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
>  
>  Think I'll file a bug once I get time...
>   
post here the link please.

[Sawrub]

On 11/27/2009 07:11 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>  2009/11/26 brian<fedora(a)logi.ca>:
>     
> > On 11/26/2009 12:05 PM, Andrea wrote:
> >      
> >> On 26/11/09 16:53, brian wrote:
> >>        
> >>> On 11/26/2009 10:37 AM, Andrea wrote:
> >>>          
> >>>> If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.
> >>>>            
> >>> Works fine for me.
> >>>
> >>> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
> >>> Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
> >>>          
> >> I've got the same exact version, but as soon as I press pause, nothing
> >> works anymore...
> >>        
> > Maybe you have an extension loaded that's causing a conflict.
> >
> >      
>  Having now tried this on two up to date F11 x86_64 systems I've found
>  that the same pause problem happens there (after cleaning my
>  ~/.mozilla directory and disabling any system-wide plugins that
>  remained).  This leaves me wondering whether Andrea is using 64bit or
>  32bit Firefox.
>
>  Versions:
>  firefox-3.5.5-1.fc11.x86_64
>  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
>  Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
>
>  Think I'll file a bug once I get time...
>
>      
The first one works under 3.5.5 while second video not even 
initializes.Compared to Google chrome released last week both are 
running just great.
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/

-- 
Saurabh Sharma
Linux user number: 490644
http://sawrub-blog.blogspot.com/
Open your doors.......It's time to look beyond Windows

[Ian Malone]

2009/11/26 brian <fedora(a)logi.ca&gt;:
>  On 11/26/2009 12:05 PM, Andrea wrote:
> >
> > On 26/11/09 16:53, brian wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11/26/2009 10:37 AM, Andrea wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.
> >>
> >> Works fine for me.
> >>
> >> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
> >> Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
> >
> > I've got the same exact version, but as soon as I press pause, nothing
> > works anymore...
>
>  Maybe you have an extension loaded that's causing a conflict.
>  
Having now tried this on two up to date F11 x86_64 systems I've found
that the same pause problem happens there (after cleaning my
~/.mozilla directory and disabling any system-wide plugins that
remained).  This leaves me wondering whether Andrea is using 64bit or
32bit Firefox.

Versions:
firefox-3.5.5-1.fc11.x86_64
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5

Think I'll file a bug once I get time...

-- 
imalone

[brian]

On 11/26/2009 12:05 PM, Andrea wrote:
>  On 26/11/09 16:53, brian wrote:
> > On 11/26/2009 10:37 AM, Andrea wrote:
> >>
> >> If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.
> >
> > Works fine for me.
> >
> > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
> > Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
>
>  I've got the same exact version, but as soon as I press pause, nothing works
> anymore... 
Maybe you have an extension loaded that's causing a conflict.

[Andrea]

On 26/11/09 16:53, brian wrote:
>  On 11/26/2009 10:37 AM, Andrea wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without
> > plugins.
> > It's the big HTML5 +<video>  saga.
> >
> > I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this
> > things works a bit but not very well.
> >
> > Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left
> >
> > http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/
> >
> > It's a good example of what does not work.
> >
> > If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.
>  
>  Works fine for me.
>  
>  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
>  Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
>  
>   
I've got the same exact version, but as soon as I press pause, nothing works
anymore...

> > And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.
> >
> > Has anybody tried http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as
> > it does not work even without
> > pressing pause.
>  
>  Ditto. Does not start.
>

[brian]

On 11/26/2009 10:37 AM, Andrea wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without plugins.
>  It's the big HTML5 +<video>  saga.
>
>  I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this things works a bit
> but not very well.
>
>  Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left
>
>  http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/
>
>  It's a good example of what does not work.
>
>  If I pause the video there is no way of starting again. 
Works fine for me.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105 
Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5


>  And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.
>
>  Has anybody tried http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as it does not work
> even without
>  pressing pause. 
Ditto. Does not start.

[Ian Malone]

2009/11/26 Andrea <mariofutire(a)googlemail.com&gt;:
>  Hi,
>
>  recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without plugins.
>  It's the big HTML5 + <video> saga.
>
>  I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this things works a bit
> but not very well.
>
>  Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left
>
>  http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/
>
>  It's a good example of what does not work.
>
>  If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.
>
>  And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.
>
>  Has anybody tried http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as it does not work
> even without
>  pressing pause.
>  
Not on a Fedora system right now, but the
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/ example is working for
me on Firefox 3.5.5 on Slackware (pausing, backwards and forwards,
etc.), so that might be a Fedora-specific problem. The
http://www.youtube.com/html5 example does not work, right clicking on
it to 'save as' shows it is an mp4 file, which is probably not
supported without extra plugins. The failure to specify a basic codec
support for HTML5 was its major failing.

-- 
imalone